Abstract— The IEEE 802.11e standard has recently been ratified. This standard provides Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees in the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of 802.11 Wir...
The advancement of wireless communication and mobile telecommunication has made mobile commerce possible. In the retail business under the evolving market, the users would like to...
—In mobile environment, it is very common that mobile devices periodically stay in disconnection mode. In a networked world as today, computer users rely on network services so h...
Abstract—The high density of WiFi Access Points and large unlicensed RF bandwidth over which they operate makes them good candidates to alleviate cellular network’s limitations...
Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) replication has enjoyed a series of performance improvements, but remains costly due to its replicated work. We eliminate this cost for read-mostly ...